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In Gujarat for a two-day assessment and prep work of ground realities before the Assembly elections in December, Delhi chief minister and AAP leader addressed a massive gathering of party workers at Naroda Mewada Green Party Plot in Ahmedabad, Sunday. Among his big ticket assurance was the promise of free electricity in Gujarat. “If the […]
The continuous 24-hour rainfall on Saturday witnessed the death of four people in Saurashtra.On Friday evening, two labourer children’s bodies were discovered near a lake in the industrial area of Shapar-Veraval, bordering Rajkot.Arjun Bariya and his brother Ashwin, aged 5 and 9 respectively, from Madhya Pradesh, were ragpickers, went to waste collection on Thursday and […]
Godhra court on Saturday sentenced an accused of the 2002 Godhra train massacre case to life imprisonment. The train set ablaze killed 59 people and set off the deadliest riots in Gujarat’s history. The people who lost their lives on the train were ‘karsevaks’ returning from Ayodhya on 27 February 2002. The offender, Rafik Bhatuk, […]
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy rains in South Gujarat and Saurashtra for the next five days. Heavy rains are forecast in Banaskantha, Sabarkantha, Dang, Tapi, Porbandar, Amreli, Dwarka, Gir Somnath, and Kutch. So far, heavy rains have been seen in 149 talukas of Gujarat, with 11 talukas getting more than 3 inches […]
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Supremo Arvind Kejriwal arrived in Ahmedabad today, for his two-day visit to the poll-bound state of Gujarat. From the airport, the Delhi Chief Minister will reach Naroda Mewada Green Party plot, where he will administer the oath of 7500 newly appointed office bearers of AAP Gujarat. At present more than 6000 […]
Gujarat’s state education department is planning to carry out a survey to find out how many children between the ages of 6 and 18 years are not enrolled in schools. The said survey will cover 18,907 villages and eight municipal corporations of the state. This will be part of the state government’s Samagra Shiksha campaign. […]
This morning, a group of some forty people gathered at the Satellite police station in Ahmedabad to register a case against a company they believe has cheated them. The people have, apparently, lost more than Rs30 lakhs. The people said that they had bought a scheme from a company named Valorah-Karma Resort and Hospitality, which […]
With July just starting, the western states of India are expected to see the peak of monsoon soon. With heavy rainfall, comes the danger of floods that might hit certain regions in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Rajasthan. As such the National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) is already taking precautionary measures to see to it that […]
With a notch lower than the the previous day, Gujarat on Saturday registered a total of 580 fresh Covid-19 cases in last 24 hours. Ahmedabad once again was the top city to report highest number of daily Covid-19 cases in last 24 hours on Saturday. Ahmedabad on Saturday registered 236 fresh Covid-19 in last 24 […]
Heavy rains lashed parts of Gujarat, disrupting normal life and causing flooding in low-lying areas in Surat, Banaskantha, and Anand districts, with Palsana taluka in Surat recording 209 mm rainfall in a day until Saturday morning, according to officials. A team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) deployed by the district administration shifted as […]
The Surat Airport authorities have decided to strengthen its airstrip with steel slag in accordance with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) recommendations and Civil Aviation Requirements (CAR). The basic strip at a code C airport must be 140 metres wide, well graded, and have a minimum 15 percent California Bearing Ratio (CBR) — subgrade soil […]
Mahendrasinh Vaghela, son of former chief minister Shankarsinh Vaghela, has hinted at rejoining the BJP. On the auspicious occasion ‘Ashadhi bij’ on Friday, he called on Union Home Minister Amit Shah to pay a visit to Vasania Mahadev in Shah’s ancestral hometown. In 2018, Mahendrasinh joined the BJP wearing a saffron scarf at the hands […]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which is emerging as a key player in the 2022 Gujarat elections arguably making it a three-corner contest, has realised its copy-paste campaign from Delhi polls won’t work here and has devised a customised agenda for Gujarat. If in Delhi it emerged more as an urban-centric party speaking of free […]
In a continuing upward trend of daily cases in Gujarat, the state registered a total of 632 new Covid-19 cases in last 24 hours on Friday. This is the highest daily positive cases in Gujarat after around 133 days. Apart from this, the state also reported its first death due to Covid-19 after over 16 […]
Gujarat government has embraced the Centre’s Digital India project and delivered impressive results. So far, the administrators have provided optical fiber connectivity to 99.97% of village panchayats through the BharatNet project. The state is also currently laying more than 35,000 km of underground cables. This program has covered 14000 village panchayats, where 312 services of […]
The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport customs officers confiscated around 95 capsules from the large intestine of a Nigerian traveller. On Monday, the officers detained a 30-year-old foreigner voyaging from Dubai. Based on the information that a passenger on an Emirates flight was carrying drugs, the customs officials seized drugs worth millions from his gut. […]
The Gujarat High Court refused the medical termination of the 30-week pregnancy of a mentally unsounded 15-year-old mute tribal rape survivor. The single bench of Justice Niral R Mehta said that it will not be desirable to terminate the pregnancy after hearing the opinion of the medical experts. A panel of doctors formed by Banas […]
A cafe, that was inaugurated yesterday in Junagadh, has taken a new initiative to promote the concept of plastic-free India. This establishment is an eco-friendly cafe that started its operations on July 1, which is the day when the ban on single-use plastic was executed. In this cafe, run by Sarvoday Sakhi Mandal, one can […]
A young man from Surat has been given police protection as he had received threats for strongly condemning the brutal murder of Kanhaiya Lal. In Udaipur, Kanhaiya Lal was beheaded for speaking in support of ex-Bharatiya Janata Party leader Nuur Sharma who made insulting comments against Prophet Mohammad. Yuvraj Pokhrana from Surat had protested against […]
The Gujarat High Court while hearing an appeal against a judgment of conviction and sentence to undergo life imprisonment, observed that a chain of circumstantial evidence becomes cogent evidence while convicting a man under section 302 IPC for murder. The court relied on the major finding that the prosecution witness (PW) 3 who is a […]
